Introducing transcribe.cpp: A Fast, Accurate, and Cross-Platform Speech-to-Text Library

Transcribe.cpp

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I built transcribe.cpp to solve the pain of distributing cross-platform speech-to-text applications. This ggml-based library supports over 60 models with numerical validation and WER testing, ensuring accuracy matches reference implementations. It offers GPU acceleration via Vulkan, Metal, and CUDA, and includes bindings for Python, JavaScript, Rust, and Swift, making local inference accessible and reliable.

"Faster than real time transcription with SOTA models runs in a handful of watts. It's not a hope or a dream, it's a fact."

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